On 01/11/2012 03:50 PM, Arnd Bergmann :

On Wednesday 11 January 2012, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

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What I and Guennadi agreed (http://linuxtv.org/irc/v4l/index.php?date=2012-01-05)
were to do just the reverse:

He would be sending you one single patch with my ack, that would allow the 
arm tree to be merged [1], I would wait for a few days for the arm tree to
be pulled, and then I would rebase my -next tree to remove that patch
from it.

[1] http://git.linuxtv.org/gliakhovetski/v4l-dvb.git/commitdiff/88c6599d97b489ac543fa352159a81f60bddded7

It's just not what happened. I got this series from Nicolas:

7a1834b ARM: at91: Update struct atmel_nand_data to support PMECC
9356fba ARM: at91/dma: DMA controller registering with DT support
31527e7 ARM: at91/dma: remove platform data from DMA controller
226e3aa ARM: at91: add Atmel ISI and ov2640 support on sam9m10g45 board
e889a64 ARM: at91: add clock selection parameter for at91_add_device_isi()
7a13e73 media i.MX27 camera: Fix field_count handling.
166b37f media i.MX27 camera: add support for YUV420 format.
88c6599 V4L: atmel-isi: add code to enable/disable ISI_MCK clock
... (the rest of v4l at the time)

and I merged it into the next/drivers2 branch, explaining that I would
merge these as soon as the dependencies in v4l are merged. :(

quoted

My -next tree were never meant to be stable. It is just a patch repository
where I merge from the real development repository, in order to test them
against the hole changes. From time to time, when bad things happen
(patch conflicts, compilation breakages, requests to remove bad patches),
I just rebase it.

Ok, thanks for the confirmation.

quoted

I prefer if you could just pick this patch from Guennadi's tree:
 http://git.linuxtv.org/gliakhovetski/v4l-dvb.git/commitdiff/88c6599d97b489ac543fa352159a81f60bddded7

and add my ack on it, removing the v4l-dvb merge from yours.

Linus seems to prefer to have the arch trees merged before the drivers
tree, with makes sense.

I think it's better for you to just send everything you have right away,
including the atmel-isi patch.

I'll drop the remaining atmel patches from my next/drivers2 branch and let
Nicolas send me a new rebased pull request for 3.4. The patches in question
look simple enough, but if the developers can't get a simple dependency right
after discussing it for weeks, I'd rather not take it this time.

I am so astonished and sad about all this! I have the feeling of having
done exactly what Guennadi and Olof had asked me to do: What I get at
the end: people having a bad feeling about my work, not expected merge
conflicts which annoy everybody (only for a ridiculous amount of code),
my patches delayed and a comment saying that I cannot handle simple
dependency...
Nice result!

- Guennadi did not want to take SoC/board code in his tree
=> I had to take those lines of code through at91/arm-soc breaking the
   patch series and allowing the introduction of an out-of-sync merge

- I built a pull request with only the SoC/board code on top of a
  Linus' -rc tag (yes, that was breaking compilation on certain
  configurations in the meantime)
=> I was told that I should bring the v4l dependency with my branch

- I resent a "pull request" on top of v4l branch after a discussion
  between Guennadi, Olof and me. The conclusion of this discussion was
  quite obvious:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/145196
=> It was supposed to be the last time I moved those patches around...

I have understood and approved all the reasons for the requested
changes, of course. But for which gain?

Ok... well, it looks like a massive incomprehension which took us time
and ends up by wastefulness.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre